Parenting Programs

Common Sense Parenting

• 6 Sessions / 2 hour classes.  A practical approach to help parents be more positive with their children and to use more effective discipline.  Parents are taught skills that focus on how to encourage positive behavior, discourage negative behavior, and alternatives to problem behavior. 

Common Sense Parenting Brochure(PDF)

Changing Destructive Adolescent Behavior Parent Project, Sr.

• 10 Sessions / 3 hour classes.  A comprehensive, award-winning model for community based programs serving families with strong-willed or out of control youth. This program offers step by step, no nonsense solutions for changing destructive adolescent behaviors.  A built in support group component offers parents emotional and practical support as they make difficult changes at home.

Loving Solutions for Tough Kids Parent Project, Jr.

• 7-week program
• for parents raising difficult 5-10 year old children
• special application for parents of ADD/ADHD children
• offers parents a concrete framework for working with highly emotional, impulsive and ADHD younger children

LIFE SKILLS TRAINING
FOR HIGH SCHOOL YOUNG ADULTS

Seven units / 10 lessons (45 minute sessions).  Developed by Dr. Gilbert J. Botvin (leading prevention expert) and designed for grades 9-10.  Evidence-based curriculum proven to reduce risky behavior among youth and provide essential skills for a successful life.